Facts--dates--persons--and localities were demanded and cheerfully furnished.

Proper inquiry--either by letter, or personally, or through the medium of friends was then made from _every_ person, and in _every_ quarter likely to elucidate the truth.

In fact no test for its ascertainment, known to the sense or experience of the Committee, was omitted.

The result was the collection of a large body of testimony from very diversified quarters.
Slave owners, slave dealers, fugitives from slavery, political friends and political foes contributed to a mass of testimony, every part of which pointed to a common conclusion--the undoubted truth of Mr.Bibb's statements.
In the Committee's opinion no individual can substantiate the events of his life by testimony more conclusive and harmonious than is now before them in confirmation of Mr.
Bibb.

The main facts of his narrative, and many of the minor ones are corroborated beyond all question.